The weak definition of what constitutes forest under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) puts the effectiveness of a proposed mechanism for reducing emissions from ...

In a notification issued on August 18, the state government defined the expression “forest as per dictionary meaning” with restrictive technical criteria that environmental activists say could exclude ...

The Supreme Court on Monday directed all states and union territories to act as per the definition of "forest" as laid down by the top court in the 1996 judgment in the case of TN Godavarman ...

The health of the world's forests — and their capacity to lock away carbon — could be jeopardized by logging if the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) definition of a ...

The Haryana government’s decision to go by the ‘dictionary meaning’ of forests has thrown open the doors to wide-ranging debates. On March 4, the Supreme Court directed all states and union ...

The FAO lumps non-oil palm tree plantations into its definition of forest cover when conducting its Global Forest Resource Assessments. The assessments analyze land cover change in countries around ...

Gurgaon: Months after the Supreme Court ordered all states and Union territories to define "forest" and map all such areas, not a single survey has been carried out as part of the exercise in Haryana ...

Gurgaon: Most of the Aravalis that aren't already protected in Gurgaon and Faridabad – nearly 14,000 acres, the size equivalent of around 8,000 football fields – will not qualify as ‘forest', going by ...

Haryana defines "forest" narrowly, risking legal protection for Aravalli forests, contradicting a Supreme Court order for broader forest identification criteria. Haryana has taken the extraordinary ...

Haryana has taken the extraordinary step of defining what constitutes a “dictionary meaning” of forest, 18 months after the Supreme Court ordered states to identify forests using that very phrase’s ...